I have fleas in my house!!!?
Question:How do I get rid of the fleas? How expensive is the pest control dude? THanks!!
Answers:
GO TO YOUR LOCAL FARMER SUPPLY STORE , BUY SOME HEAVY DUTY BUG SPRAY COST ABOUT $32
SPRAY THE WHOLE PLACE AROUND THE BASE BOARDS, REPEAT IN 14 DAYS , THE PRO CHARGE
$160
OK do it now because the fleas are breeding while you are talking. Remove all pets plants and food and go to the super market and buy one for each room, special spray, they are cans of spray that you leave and take up to 4 hours to kill all pests. Read the directions and turn the gas off the pest control will cost hundreds
First of all.do you own pets? This happens to me almost every year. If you do, give them flea collars and use flea killing shampoos. Flea collars are also useful if you don't own pets. Cut them up into pieces and put them in places you suspect fleas are hiding the most (under/behind furniture, ect.) Maybe you could vacuum regularly or wash your carpet with one of those rugdoctor things, to get rid of eggs or adults.
We get fleas every year, from opossums that set up camp in our cypress trees. To some degree, we have to defend as best we can, then just wait it out. When the opossums leave, so do the fleas! Some years it's BAD. I don't think you should need to call a bug guy. But here's what you can do:
1. Spray the exterior. Buy some insect yard spray at Home Depot, and spray the bejeebers out of your grass and flower beds, especially anywhere you know to be animal hangouts. Make sure you get something that specifically says it kills fleas, flea larvae, and if possible flea eggs.
2. Spray the interior. Buy several "bug bombs." These are little metal fogger canisters that you set off, then leave the house for several hours while the bug poison does its thing. You'll need a few to do a whole house--it takes 3 to do my 1,500 sq. ft. home.
The hassle with foggers is that you have to make sure all your food is enclosed in a cabinet, ditto your serving utensils, etc.--anything you use for food prep or serving. The refrigerator is a good place to shove some of this stuff, if you've got room. Airtight seal and all.
You will also have to remove house plants and animals (cover fish super carefully) during the fogging. And I always like to wash everything I can--bedding, throw rugs, etc.--separately to get rid of fleas and eggs, when I bomb. I don't like the idea of all those chemicals in everything I touch.
Also, be sure to really wipe down kitchen surfaces afterwards to make sure you're eliminating all the poison.
You'll have to repeat the fogging process again in 4-6 weeks, to kill any fleas that were in the egg stage during the first fogging.
3. Treat the pets. If you have pets, treat them with a flea control product. There are lots of powders, sprays, collars, etc. available. I prefer Advantage, which you can get from your vet. There's also Frontline and Advantix.
4. Maintain the interior and exterior. Every time you vacuum (or at least once a week), sprinkle carpets with Borax, then leave it for 30 minutes before vacuuming. Fleas will eat the Borax and it acts as a dessicant, killing them from thirst, essentially. (You can buy 20-Mule Team Borax near laundry detergents.)
Wash everything washable often, especially anything your animals tend to lie on.
Spray outdoors, moderately, once a week or so to keep outdoor infestation at bay.
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I hope this helps. Using these techniques helps manage the problem for us. It seems extreme, but fleas can quickly become out of control, so anything you can do to manage the infestation is reasonable!
Good luck!
The Bug Bombs are the most affective, follow the advice above though. And stand the smoke bomb in a metal container OFF your carpet. I stood mine on a house brick in an old baked bean tin.
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